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We investigate the statistics of the first-passage time (FPT) to a fractal self-similar boundary of the Koch snowflake. When the starting position is fixed near the absorbing boundary, the FPT distribution exhibits an apparent power-law…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-15 Yilin Ye , Adrien Chaigneau , Denis S. Grebenkov

We determine the survival probability and first-passage time (FPT) to capture for a harmonically trapped particle, diffusing outside an absorbing spherical boundary by directly solving the differential equation for the survival probability.…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2025-06-18 Tianyu Yuan , Ivan Surovtsev , Megan C. King , Simon G. J. Mochrie

We consider the dynamics of lattice random walks with resetting. The walker moving randomly on a lattice of arbitrary dimensions resets at every time step to a given site with a constant probability $r$. We construct a discrete renewal…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-01 Debraj Das , Luca Giuggioli

The mean first passage time, one of the important characteristics for a stochastic process, is often calculated assuming the observation time is infinite. However, in practice, the observation time, T, is always finite and the mean first…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-04-22 Ji-Hyun Kim , Hunki Lee , Sanggeun Song , Hye Ran Koh , Jaeyoung Sung

The mean first passage time~(MFPT) of random walks is a key quantity characterizing dynamic processes on disordered media. In a random fractal embedded in the Euclidean space, the MFPT is known to obey the power law scaling with the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-12-07 Hyun-Myung Chun , Sungmin Hwang , Byungnam Kahng , Heiko Rieger , Jae Dong Noh

The kinetics of a variety of transport-controlled processes can be reduced to the problem of determining the mean time needed to arrive at a given location for the first time, the so called mean first passage time (MFPT) problem. The…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2015-06-11 Aljaz Godec , Ralf Metzler

The study of first passage times for diffusing particles reaching target states is foundational in various practical applications, including diffusion-controlled reactions. In this work, we present a bi-scaling theory for the probability…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-03-21 Talia Baravi , David A. Kessler , Eli Barkai

The approach the first-passage time (FPT) of a random process to a certain level is applied to the description of radiation-enhanced diffusion. This is an integral approach to describing the problem of radiation-enhanced diffusion, which…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-11-09 V. V. Ryazanov

We consider random walks with independent but not necessarily identical distributed increments. Assuming that the increments satisfy the well-known Lindeberg condition, we investigate the asymptotic behaviour of first-passage times over…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-03 Denis Denisov , Alexander Sakhanenko , Vitali Wachtel

The determination of mean first-passage time (MFPT) for random walks in networks is a theoretical challenge, and is a topic of considerable recent interest within the physics community. In this paper, according to the known connections…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-01-30 Zhongzhi Zhang , Yi Qi , Shuigeng Zhou , Shuyang Gao , Jihong Guan

We explore first-passage phenomenology for biased active processes with a renewal-type structure, focusing in particular on paradigmatic run-and-tumble models in both discrete and continuous state spaces. In general, we show there is no…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-12-09 Yonathan Sarmiento , Benjamin Walter , Debraj Das , Samvit Mahapatra , Édgar Roldán , Rosemary J. Harris

We study the first passage statistics to adsorbing boundaries of a Brownian motion in bounded two-dimensional domains of different shapes and configurations of the adsorbing and reflecting boundaries. From extensive numerical analysis we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2013-05-30 Thiago G. Mattos , Carlos Mejía-Monasterio , Ralf Metzler , Gleb S. Oshanin

Motivated by a range of biological applications related to the transport of molecules in cells, we present a modular framework to treat first-passage problems for diffusion in partitioned spaces. The spatial domains can differ with respect…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-04-28 Daniela Frömberg , Felix Höfling

We consider a continuous-time random walk model with finite-mean waiting-times and we study the mean first-passage time (MFPT) as estimated by an observer in a reference frame $\mathcal{S}$, that is co-moving with a target, and by an…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2023-06-14 Marcus Dahlenburg , Gianni Pagnini

The two-dimensional backward Fokker-Planck equation is used to calculate the mean first-passage times (MFPTs) of the magnetic moment of a nanoparticle driven by a rotating magnetic field. It is shown that a magnetic field that is rapidly…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2016-08-16 S. I. Denisov , K. Sakmann , P. Talkner , P. Hänggi

We derive a general exact formula for the mean first passage time (MFPT) from a fixed point inside a planar domain to an escape region on its boundary. The underlying mixed Dirichlet-Neumann boundary value problem is conformally mapped onto…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2020-01-03 Denis S. Grebenkov

We study first-passage statistics for one-dimensional random walks $S_n$ with independent and identically distributed jumps starting from the origin. We focus on the joint distribution of the first-passage time $\tau_b$ and first-passage…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-07-16 Mattia Radice , Giampaolo Cristadoro

We derive an approximate but explicit formula for the Mean First Passage Time of a random walker between a source and a target node of a directed and weighted network. The formula does not require any matrix inversion, and it takes as only…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2021-11-10 Silvia Bartolucci , Fabio Caccioli , Francesco Caravelli , Pierpaolo Vivo

First-passage properties are central to the kinetics of target-search processes. Theoretical approaches so far primarily focused on predicting first-passage statistics for a given process or model. In practice, however, one faces the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-01-08 Rick Bebon , Aljaz Godec

The family of Vicsek fractals is one of the most important and frequently-studied regular fractal classes, and it is of considerable interest to understand the dynamical processes on this treelike fractal family. In this paper, we…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2010-03-19 Zhongzhi Zhang , Bin Wu , Hongjuan Zhang , Shuigeng Zhou , Jihong Guan , Zhigang Wang